Day 4 Indy 500 Practice Results: How Scott Dixon is Coping with 'Horrendous' Start to Season

• Scott Dixon comes into next weekend’s 106th Running of the Indianapolis 500 in fifth place in the NTT IndyCar Series driver standings.

• Thus far this season, he has zero wins, zero podium finishes and his best finish has been fifth (twice).

• “It's been pretty horrendous, I think, in some circumstances,” Dixon says.

On paper, Scott Dixon has had a decent start through the first five races of the 2022 NTT IndyCar Series season.

He comes into next weekend’s 106th Running of the Indianapolis 500 in fifth place in the driver standings, 37 points behind series leader Will Power.

But forget the paper. Dixon is a driver who demands perfection from both himself and his team. Thus far this season, he has zero wins, zero podium finishes and his best finish has been fifth (twice). On the flip side, his worst outing thus far was 10th in last weekend’s GMR Indy Grand Prix.

Ask Dixon, who is second quickest on the Indy 500 practice chart through Thursday, how his season has gone thus far and the New Zealander doesn’t hold back.

“It's been pretty horrendous, I think, in some circumstances,” Dixon says. “Honestly some were pretty big mistakes that we did as a group that should have never happened. That's probably two of them.